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[personal profile] flowsoffire
Hello there, guys! Well, here I am again. New batch! Twenty-seven from s5 and the corresponding special, seven from s6, two from s7, two cast icons (Hartnell and Carole Ann Ford vs. Jenna-Louise Coleman and… well, a bit of Matt Smith's hand :D) and two Bellatrix Lestrange icons. There was a LOT of texture use in this one, as that has been my new toy of love. A majority of those were taken from [livejournal.com profile] soaked, who does STELLAR stuff—I'm a fan. Besides, you can find my updated resources post here.

Enjoy! ♥ And please do comment if you like them!

(Oh, while I'm at it—if perchance anyone knew of where to find good classic!Who screencaps for the One and Two eras, I'd be ever so grateful. I only found a few and I'd really love to do more of those…)


1) Better 2) Better 3) Better 4) Better 8) Better 1-5


9) Second better 5) Second better 6) Texture play 7) Better 10) First better 6-10


11) Second better 15) Better 16) Better 17) Better 18) Better 11-15


28) Better 39) Better12) Better 13) Other 14) Second better 16-20


19) Better 22) Simple 23) Better 29) Better 30) Better 21-25


31) Better 32) Better 24) Better 25) Better 33) Better 26-30


34) Better 35) Better 36) Second better 40) Better 20) Better 31-35


21) Better 26) Better 27) Better 37) Better 38) Better 36-40


And a few alternates:

3) Black and white 4) Graph crop 2 6) Second better 9) First better 11) First better 14) Texture 36) First better


Date: 2014-05-16 09:26 pm (UTC)
but_can_i_be_trusted: from the Wayne & Shuster sketch, 'Rinse the Blood off My Toga' (Fiber Optics)
From: [personal profile] but_can_i_be_trusted
Ooh, these are beautiful! I love the colors. :D

Re:

Date: 2014-05-17 06:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flowsoffire.livejournal.com
Thank you! :D I'm so glad you liked them!

Date: 2014-05-17 06:37 am (UTC)
but_can_i_be_trusted: from the Wayne & Shuster sketch, 'Rinse the Blood off My Toga' (Chocolate Bars)
From: [personal profile] but_can_i_be_trusted
♥ They're stunning!

Date: 2014-05-17 06:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flowsoffire.livejournal.com
*dances happily*

Date: 2014-05-16 09:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] acciochocolate.livejournal.com
Check the links on my LJ--I think you can see them even though the posts are flocked. There's some links to DW screencaps. :)

Date: 2014-05-17 06:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flowsoffire.livejournal.com
Ahhhhh! I found the most AMAZING link in there, all the Doctors and oompanions apparently, it's a dream come true ♥ Thank you so much!!! *hugs*

Date: 2014-05-16 11:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com
You know how much I lovelovelove these!! Whoot!

*HUGS*

Date: 2014-05-17 06:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flowsoffire.livejournal.com
*bounces* Thank you! ♥♥♥

Date: 2014-05-17 04:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] universaldogma.livejournal.com
Pretty colouring~ :D

Apparently this place is good for Classic caps??? *shrugs*

Date: 2014-05-17 06:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flowsoffire.livejournal.com
Thank you! ^_^

Yessssss! It also seems to have all of them, and Hartnell and Troughton most of all ♥♥♥ Thank you!!! *hugs you happily*

Date: 2014-05-17 03:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] angel1605.livejournal.com
OMG, they're all so pretty!! I don't even know where to start looking, let alone commenting! <3
The Bellatrix ones caught most of my attention, especially the first, but that's probably because Donna isn't in there as well ;)
Looking at the batch as a whole, the colors are so striking! Just incredible to look at <3
Can I ask how long it takes you on average to make on icon? I don't thin of making them myself, but I find this so intriguing! XD

Date: 2014-05-17 06:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flowsoffire.livejournal.com
Heheeeee, thank you so much :D :D :D Really? :D That's funny, I liked the Bellatrix ones least. The pictures were dark, with her huge dark hair all over the place, I felt there was no way to make the image clear and striking. Funnily enough I ended up liking the second one better, but it's great to hear you like the first one too! Hahaha, I actually played at applying colour lipstick on that second one and the River one of the previous line (select the mouth and apply a slight pink light). I'm silly like that.

Yes, Donna was missing, eh ;P But two people gave me links for classic screencaps, so there should be classics in the next batch, which in turn will encourage me to pull out of the billion Eleven era caps I already have saved on my laptop and go pick some RTD era as well ;)

Ummm, well, quite honestly, I don't really know. It depends on the icon. They all get the same preparing treatment—crop, resize, adjusting the light and sometimes the clarity. Then some are done very fast, if I'm pleased right away with the look of them—your Zelena and Wicked Gold were super easy for instance: one or two gradients, then I tried adding a texture and in both cases I just fell in love with the result at first try. Then there are the cases when I can't find something I like right away, and will keep tweaking and trying different options, with more or less pulling my hair out ;) What makes it harder to figure out the time is, I don't make an icon in one go and then never touch it again. When I open Gimp, the first thing I do is browse through the current batch-in-progress from the beginning, just passing the things that look good and stopping when there is one I'm not 100% happy with to rework it a little, and only then do I move on to a new icon. So they basically all get either really reworked when the first try wasn't great, or tweaked a bit for details, more light, less light, stronger colours etc. Until it's posted it's always in progress! ;)

Date: 2014-05-18 06:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] angel1605.livejournal.com
"her huge dark hair all over the place" LOL, that's just Bellatrix XD :P

Thanks a lot for explaining the way you work! It's fascinating. And I find it very interesting to hear that my Zelena and Wicked Gold ones were done so quickly! :D
It must be satisfying yet also very frustrating to keep working until you've posted them - I admire that dedication.

Date: 2014-05-18 07:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flowsoffire.livejournal.com
Yes, it is ;) But with the already low lighting, it just ate everything! Why can't she be nice and golden like I don't know, River? :D

You're welcome, it was fun giving you the explanation, always nice to ramble on about stuff I'm passionate about to someone who's interested =) And yes! Those only have one texture, I put it and was like "whoa, I'm so keeping that". Others have a combination of textures…

Satisfying and frustrating are both right—it's an airpunch when I finally get something I like, but others I just eventually leave at "decent", but never really love—that's the case for #10. I just never did manage to make it striking.

Date: 2014-05-20 07:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] angel1605.livejournal.com
"Why can't she be nice and golden like I don't know, River? :D" --> subtle ;)

The reporting skills training lady said something very accurate today about things being only done when they're done that reminded me of you, but I'm tired and I can't really remember :P (Now that's a clear sentence... *coughs*)

Ah well, not everything can turn out a masterpiece, can they? Makes you only appreciate the best ones more, I think :)

Date: 2014-05-20 07:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flowsoffire.livejournal.com
When am I not subtle? XD

Hahaha, yeah, but I think I gathered your meaning… ish ;) ♥

Yes, that sounds like a good attitude! :D

*hugs you* Go rest! ♥♥♥

Date: 2014-05-20 07:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] angel1605.livejournal.com
Fair question ;)

That training lady isn't all that good (or bright lol) but like once every three hour class she says something extremely accurate and thought provoking in a sort of off-hand way LOL it's fascinating :P

Can't rest, first I've got News to tell! *drags eyes off Bex Mader and goes to write email*

Date: 2014-05-20 07:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flowsoffire.livejournal.com
LOL, that sounds rather weird! =P

Ohhhhh :D Good news, I hope! Well, does sound that way :) *awaits email while trying to catch up with chatty forum*

Date: 2014-05-20 07:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] angel1605.livejournal.com
It /is/! Because I'm just sitting there semi-bored and then out of nowhere I'm like "Whoa, I need to write that down!" XD

Enjoy the forum dear!

Let me spoil you in four words: Me. London. Next Week. :O XD XD XD :O :O

Date: 2014-05-20 07:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flowsoffire.livejournal.com
:D

I am! It suddenly became overwhelmingly chatty because a newbie, there are tons of super long posts debating all kinds of things about the HP universe now, it's lovely.

Whoa!!!!! Can't wait for the details! :D ♥

Date: 2014-05-19 05:08 pm (UTC)
radiolaires: (Clara is a Picasso)
From: [personal profile] radiolaires
Ugh finding caps for Classic Who IS hard. Those are great, I love, love the colours: it's like a party. River's face in the tenth is my favourite River's face.
And I LOVE the cropping for 37. And Hartnell and Ford! So cute!
I can see you began cutting figures to add the textures; this is great and kudos to you.
You did a smashing job!

Date: 2014-05-19 06:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flowsoffire.livejournal.com
People gave me great links, so there WILL be classic Who icons!!!! I've already done 11 :D All the One and Barbara and Ian and Vicki and black and white looks so good and I'm so happy about this ♥

Thank you, thank you, thank you :D I'm so happy you liked them. #10, seriously? Well, River's face itself is very nice indeed, but that icon was probably the one I was least satisfied with so it's good that wasn't what drew your attention ;)

Haha, thank you about the cropping for #37, I wanted a bit of Matt and it just happened. Hartnell and Ford were a picture I saw on Facebook and could absolutely not resist. Yes about the textures and the cutting! I was despairing a bit at the little flaws in the cutting that are still visible in some, but oh well =P

Thanks again! It means a lot to me that you liked those :D

Date: 2014-06-22 02:52 pm (UTC)
radiolaires: (Default)
From: [personal profile] radiolaires
YES, still have to go back to pages to catch up on my dash entries. I can't wait to see it!

Yes ten! Because of River's face obviously, but also because of the play with colours: from left to right, it's light on her hair, then a little darker, then very dark in the shadow of her hair, then back to the lighter shade on her face, then a little darker on the side of her face, then very dark again, then just a little darker than the side of her face and more saturated... I just really like it.

Great icons all of them! and as long as you are having fun with them.

Date: 2014-06-22 02:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flowsoffire.livejournal.com
:D Can't wait to see what you think, either! ;)

Ahhhh, okay, I understand! :D

I'm thinking right now that the icons look better on this darker layout ;) I should change my new comm's layout while I'm at it. And I'm certainly having fun! ♥ Been doing some more and still loving it! :D

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